Word: heroicize
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These facts are not new, of course, in part because other historians have responded to a furious anti-Lincoln article Bennett wrote for Ebony in 1968 by providing less heroic profiles of the 16th President. What's new is Bennett's emphasis. As he writes, even now some white scholars tend to consign the unflattering truth about Lincoln's racist ideals to "footnotes and asides." Glory rips off the cover. And yet, since it was published in February, Glory has been met with what Bennett calls a "conspiracy of silence." By last week not a word had appeared...
...hero, Hector. Shakespeare also shows how the war caused by one love affair destroys another. The stories of the love between the Trojan Troilus and the Grecian Cressida, encouraged by her uncle Pandarus and of Cressida's desertion of Troilus for the Greek Diomedes, are medieval additions to the heroic narrative...
...savvy enough to overshadow the Attorney General's press conference with her guided tour through the upturned bedroom. After Donato Dalrymple joined the Gonzalez household, so crowded with hangers-on it resembled the Marx Brothers' stateroom in A Night at the Opera, Marisleysis burnished his image as the heroic fisherman who saved Elian. As it turns out, he's a housecleaner who has been so hungry for the limelight that his cousin, the veteran seaman on the boat, has vowed never to see him again...
...early grades. Here, it turns out, many of the reformers agree with the critics. Teacher training in America has traditionally and grossly stressed pedagogy over content. The implicit message to the teachers is: If you know how to teach, you can teach anything! It will take a heroic effort--by mathematicians and math educators--to change the entrenched culture of teacher training...
...sympathize, but can't help feeling she is responsible for her misfortunes. Marie stubbornly refuses to understand there is no easy solution to her predicament; the Soviet authorities will not permit her to return to France. Ultimately, the fault lies with Wargnier. He has created a character of heroic proportions, a woman who endures unimaginable hardships, years of exile in a forced labor camp, to escape Soviet Russia. In the process, he has deprived his protagonist of a more human face...